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Doug Wotring
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 10:56 pm: | |
I have an old sony backup camera.....llooking to use a newer style monitor....however it has some old style plug...round with 4 holes for pins from the monitor. what are my options |
Brian Brown (Fishbowlbrian)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 11:22 pm: | |
if you can figure the pin-out, you can make an adapter with Radio Shack parts.
The four should be power (+ and -) and a composite cable feed with signal and ground. Figuring out their order is the hard part.
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Doug Wotring
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 6:11 am: | |
Actually the monitor has a seperate power feed.
unless you mean power ffrom the monitor to the camera? |
Brian Brown (Fishbowlbrian)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 11:21 am: | |
The power I was referring to should be to power the CCD (imaging device) of the camera, and is usually 12v DC.
If you dig around on Sony's website, you might be able to pull up some documentation on your camera's pin-outs. Then, you'd just solder up an adapter to go from your proprietary connection into one yellow RCA video jack and an appropriate-sized 12v receptacle to match your power feed (or just hard-wire it). Just be sure and fuse it somewhere in the event your adapter comes apart.
HTH,
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DrDave
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 11:05 pm: | |
Just FYI,
The image reversal (mirror) is usually done in the monitor itself.
Some manufacturers swap the horizontal yoke wires while others do the reversal electronically either in the monitor or camera. Your results at changing the monitor may or may not work as you expect. |